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Back to Departmental Colloquium: Spring 2023

Departmental Colloquium


Date: Thursday, Mar 23, 2023

Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Location: JWB 335


Richard Tsai

University of Texas at Austin

Title

Implicit boundary integral methods and applications

Abstract

I will review a general framework that can be used to develop numerical methods for various problems involving non-parametrically defined surfaces. The main idea is to formulate appropriate extensions of a given problem defined on a surface to ones in the narrow band of the surface in the embedding space. The extensions are arranged so that the solutions to the extended problems are equivalent, in a strong sense, to the surface problems that we set out to solve. Such extension approaches allow us to analyze the well-posedness of the resulting system, develop systematically and in a unified fashion numerical schemes for treating a wide range of problems involving differential and integral operators, and deal with similar problems in which only point clouds sampling the surfaces are given. We will demonstrate a few computations of some applications involving integral equations, partial differential equations, and optimal control problems on hypersurfaces.

Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics

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